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"Then," said the gallant soldier, Il die content
Tell my wife and children that my last thoughts
were of them"
Near the old camps of the Union troops,
two miles north from the scene of the first en-
gagement, Manson made another stand. Hero
was some hard fighting, but again the Con-
feGerates were victorious At this time Gen.
Nelson arrived, took command and arranged
for a final stand on a slight elevation near the
cemetery in front of Richmond. Here the
| Federal raw recruits, decimated to about 9, 500
men, made their third and last rally against
an enemy vastly superior in numbers and dis
| ciplinc The Confederate line was twice re-
pulsed Immediately to the right of the ceme-
| terry, but the Union line was finally broken
and Aanked and tie day vas hopelessly lost.
| Gen. Nelson was twice wounded in this action.
| Gen. Manson was captured.
| In the brittle of Richmond there were Il, 600
| Confederate troops and thirty-six pieces of
artillery The Union forces consisted Of
| about Z ,090 men. The Confederates lost over
| 300 in killed and wounded. The Union troops
lost S25. Besides that, 1900 of them were
| made prisoners.
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Bragg, in arranging the plan of campaign,
ordered Kirby Smith to move through east
ern Kentucky to Lexington, and then push
on straight to the Ohio river and take posses
sion of Cincinnati. Bragg himself was to
lead an army through central Kentucky and
come out on the Ohio river at Louisville
While in the interior the two generals were to
make junction at Frankfort, the capital of
the state, if practicable, and proclaim a Con-
federate government
Gen. William Nelson had been ordered by
Buell. to take charge of the Union defepses
OF Kentucky. At this time the federal gem
eral, George w. Morgan, was at Cumber-
land Gap, watching lest the Confederates
should try to get through into Kentucky
there He sent out detachments OF cavalry
to watch the neighboring gaps Kirby
Smith sent Gen. Stevenson with his brigade
to engage Morgan's small force, while he HIM
self led his main army with all speed on into
Kentucky. Gen. Morgan was thus cut off
from re-enforcements and supplies. After
some days on half rations he was forced to
abandon Cumberland Gap altogether, retreat
ing with his command to the Ohio river.
During this time Kirby Smiths main army
was nearing the fat central Kentucky region.
The last of August they suddenly appeared
before Richmond.
Kirby Smiths men had little to eat but
green corn on their raid into Kentucky. 1t
Is noticeable throughout the war that the
southern soldiers never carried quantities of
food along, and were never numbered with
baggage. u can Vhip any army that is fol-
lowed by a flock Of cattle," was a saying of
StoneWalI Jackson's
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MARCHING THROUGH KENTUCKY,

We left Bragg at Bardstown Sept, 81.
Oct. he left Gen. I.eonidas Polk in COM
mand at that town, and himself started to
lexington. Polk had orders to SLOWLY re-
tire" to Bryantsville. Kirby Smith was at
this time in the interior of the state with his
army, waiting orders to join Bragg at Frank
fort.
There really was a Confederate governor
of Kentucky for few days. Oct. Bragg
and Kirby Smith united their forces at
Frankfort. Then Bragg was good as his
word. He and Kirby Smith installed Rich
ard Hawes as provisional Confederate gov
ernor of Kentucky. Bragg had set up q
Confederate government in the state,
Richard Halves had been a member Of the
United States congress. The Confederate
government in Kentucky did not, however,
last long A week later it retreated swiftly
southwark, governor and all
Bragg learned at Lexington, Oct. 2, that
Buell. had started after him again. Bragg's
own army had been considerably increased
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MORGAN,S RAID. 1862.

July 4, Col. John n Morgan, with S7G
partisan rangers" started from Knoxville.
Tenn, on raid into Kentucky. His object
was to get men and horses for the Confederate
army. His approach struck terror to the
hearts of the country people within 100 miles
of him. When runOr said he was near the
honest farmer led his valuable horses and
cattle into the thick woods, into deep ravines,
and tied them there till this terror should be
passed. 1t is narrated that sometimes, Just
when this had been done, Morgan and his
men would suddenly appear as if they had
come out of the ground, and say to the
affrighted owner: Here they are. You've
put them just where We wanted them, al
ready for u.s."
Morgan crossed the Cumberland mountains
and galloped northward into the heart OF
Kentucky. At Lebanon, on the Louisville
and Nashville railrot.l, July II, he destroyed
$50, 600 worth of United States government
property. There was q dash and romance
about him and his band that caused hun.
ireds OF young Kentlcl,ians to join them.
Still northward pressed Morgan. July a.
! Is and 1G he destroyed railroads, telegraDlls
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in the Mexican war. He had also served in the
Seminole war. Ee resigned from the regular
army and was planter in Louisiana in 1861. when
he was appointed Confederate brigadier
gehef n FEB, peb,ruary 1869, he was made :sde
at the battle of Shiloh After his invasion Of
Kentucky he fought Eosecrans at Bturfreesboro
and defeated him at CnickaInauga. His military
career mostly ended at the battle of Mission
Ridge 1853 where he waS driven back by G. rant
Gen Bragg died at Galveston, Tex, in 1875
Such were the two leaders who were to try
against each other, not only their racing powers,
but their strategic and fighting ability.
Bragg entered Kentucky Sept with over
10000 men, He thus had two days the
start of Buell.
This September, while the famous county
fairs take place at Richmond, Lexington,
Cynthiana and Paris, with their display Of
fleet horses, shining Jerseys and short horned
cattle and beautiful women, some gray
boards doubtless remember that twenty five
years ago, this month, there were very few
county fairs in the magnificent Blue Grass
region. They were broken up by the tramp
of armies, the hiss of bursting shells and the
thunaerous sound of artillery.
1t was Buel's concentration of his army at
Murfreesboro that gave Bragg free scope TO
start where he would unmolested.
Sept. z Buell started after him with
nearly $4,000 men. He meant to overtake
Bragg and force him to a battle. His divi.
sion commanders were Gems. Ammen, Thos,
L. Crittenden, Alex Mcdowell McOook,
Wood, Rousseau and Robt. B. Mitchell He
crossed the Cumberland at Nashville on
bis road north, and left there three divisions
Under Thomas as a garrison.
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Probably as singular an Incident as ever
took place in the annals of war happened
here On Sept IA, Bragg assaulted, and
was repulsed. Sept. Is, Bragg again de-
manded surrender, and was second time
refused. The Confsderates withdrew then,
but reappeared third time in force. Bragg
sent flag of truce to the garrison, however,
calling for its surrender in the name of hu-
manity. He had his whole army around
them, he declared, and if he was forced to
attack again it would be useless shedding
of blood, for the garrison was doomed at all
hazard. The little Union garrison held a
council of war. 1t was determined not to
surrender unless the commanding officer of
the garrison was permitted to make q per-
sonal inspection of Braggs camp, to prove
the truth Of his statement. This was tke
answer sent back to the Confederate COM
mander. Strangely enough the offer was ac-
cepted by Bragg, and Col Wilder went in
person and was escorted through the Confed-
crate quarters the evening of Sept. 16 He
found an army of %, 900 men, with 45 pieces
Of artillery, against his handful Of less than
1900. He decided that further resistance was
useless, and surrendered Munfordsville, with
the honors OF war, to Bragg, Sept. II. There
had been bloody fighting during the four
days. The flag of the Fifty-seventh Indiana
was cut down after having 146 bullet holes
shot through it. Wilder's resistance had been
gallant and stubborn one. A raw recruit
OF the Seventeenth Indiana. printer, sat at
an embrasure and with his own hands fired
over 500 Shots His comrades loaded for
him.
Newspaper letters of the time say that
Bragg remarked to Wilder after the sur
render: "You have ruined the best brigade
of my army"
After Munfordsville, Bragg marched to
Prewitts Knob, Buell. following him with all
his army. Buell. had sent for Thomas from
Nashville, leaving Negley in command there
Thomas joined Buell. with the First division
Sept. 20. Buell. prepared to give battle at
once, but while he did SO Braggs army sud
denly gave him the slip and marched toward
Louisville. They did not go there, however,
but again suddenly changed their course and
marched to Bardstown.
Maj Gen. Lowell II. Rousseau was one of the
most accomplished officers of the army of the
Cumberland. He was Kentuckian born in 1918,
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scouting some fun, directed him to the gen.
erals tent, where Nelson had already retired
for the night
"He'll say he's not the quartermaster," ex-
planned the boys, "but don't you believe him.
Tell him you know better, and you want
none of his lying"
The lamb went into the lions jaws. A row
of heads was ducked out of the tents all along
the line of the regiment. The soldiers were
awaiting the denouemcnt The verdant nois-
lily aroused the alleged quartermaster. There
was roar from the lion within. The lion
demanded what was the matter.
Il want the quartermaster, said the yer
dant. "Ain't you the uuartermasterr'
There was an explosion.
SIN not the quartermaster," roared Nell
son. "What do you come here disturbing ms
for?"
The civilian showed his courage. 9CoI o
now, none O. that" said he. "They told ice
you'd cIny it, but I'll have none O. your
blasted foolishness.n
The general sprang out of bed and snatched
his sword. "Come here" he exclaimed.
At that moment it was borne in on the
civilians mind that there was mistake He
turned about with a jump, and made for the
outside W orld as fast as his heels would carry
him, Gen. Nelson after. A shout of laughter
from thousand throats greeted the civilian
as he appeared, hushed in the twiulSling of an
eye when it was known that the general too
was there.
lightning rapidity, and all was silent as the
grave in moment. A solitary captain sat
outside his tent. demurely enjoying the cool
of the evening.
"Who sent that fellow to meT' demanded
Nelson.
II don't know" replied the captain
Gen. Nelson was killed at the Calf house,
Tor ne 1,aA fr.NI (s.,,,
Davis beyond all self control Nelson. who
was very large and powerful man, had
slapped Davis in the face. He is buried at
Cave Hill cemetery, Louisville. His pail
bearers were generals from Buells army and
| soldier friends. His body lay in state awhile
and his own division attended the funeral in
| procession.
At Louisville Buell. reorganized his scat
| tered army. Thousands of new recruits
| came and they were assigned to the thiuned
| old regiments. and these were filed. Whel
| ready to move once more against Bragg
! Buell. had an army of 100000 men. 1t wa,
| divided into three corps, commanded respec
| lively by Maj. Gems. A. Med. McCooS
Thomas L. Crittenden and Brig Gen. Charle
G. Gilbert. Gen. Gilbert was West Poin
| graduate of 1876
Practically Buell's chase from Murfrees
boro, Tenn, to Louisville, KY, had the ap
pearance of a retreat. 1t was contended tina
| he should have been more vigorous in action
that he should have forced Bragg TO battl,
and driven him out of Kentucky. Hallecl
at Washington took this view of it and re
lieved Buell. from command and put Thomas
in his place the last of September. Thomas
however, demonstrated earnestly against thi
| and the order was revoked. Thomas had not
| at this time, confidence in his own power 3,
handle large body of troops.
The next day, Oct. l, Buell. took comman,
again, with Thomas second, and once NOR
began the hunt after Bragg. He had 10000
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After the fight at Richmond Klby Smith
marched bis men to Lexington, the chief town
in the Blue Grass region. Thence he sent out
Gen. Heth with 5000 men TO camp within a
few miles of Covington, opposite Cincinnati.
Another detachment was ordered in the di-
rection of Louisville. Smith himself re-
manned at Lexington, waiting the word to
join Bragg. and recruiting his army among
the Blue Grass sympathizers with the Con
federate cause.
Meantime CONSERVATION reigneS at Cincin-
natl, and i'll the populous and well to do
smaller towns along the Ohio below At
Cincinnati martial law was proclaimed, and
the indefatigabie Gen. Lew Wallace began
fortifying with all speed in the region about
Covington, Ky. The remains of these de-
fenses are still seen. Wallace ordered all
business houses closed, and the ferry boats
that piled between Cincinnati on the Ohio side,
and Covington and Newport on the Kentucky
side, were stopped. All this half an hour
after Wallace reached Cincinnati, Sept. l.
The scene that followed is beyond descrip-
ton. Mothers of young infants had left
them on one side OF the river, and visited the
other for business or for pleasure. This iron
military order cut them off from return, and
for one night at least both mothers and
babies were alike frantic. Mechanics and
other workingmen, by the thousand, had left
| their families that morning, expecting to re-
turn as usual, only to ind themselves stopped
| as by an adamantine wall at o'clock. As
| all sorts Of rumors of capture and impressing
| men into the soldiers ranks were prevalent,
none knew for the time what had become of
| those nearest them. Imagination supplied
the lack of knowledge and drew pictures of
the fate of loved ones that did not err on the
side Of the commonplace and the safe. Gin
cinnatians talk to this day of Lew Wallace's
military rule in Cincinnati.
He saved it from invasion. In few hours
time he had an army of 10000 men ready.
| By his proclamation he sent prominent
wealthy citizens to the other side of the river
to work on the Notifications. 1t was Curl
Gus spectacle, white handed men with rings
and gold watches digging i'll the dirt like rail
road lahorers, and throwing up earthworks.
"Citi2ens for labor soldiers for battle u
| wero Lew Wa,lace's words
Recruits besides poured in from Ohio, In
| diana and elsewhere, till there were defend
| ers enough there to make the invasion Of
Cincinnati a serious business for anybody
| who should attempt 1t.
| A pontoon bridge was laid across the river
| and over it thousands of new soldiers marched
day and night to man the new Notifications
at Covington. After some days Heth dropped
back and rejoined Kirby Smith.
1t is time now to see what Gen. Buell. was
ABOUT.
Don Carlos Buell. was an Ohio man. born at
| Marietta in 1878 Went through West Point and
served in the Mexican war, Was made major
general of volunteers in 1862 Took effective
part in tbs battle of Shiloh. and after that was
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NO. So.

against Kirby Smith at Frankfort The rest
of the army moved by different routes against
Bragg himself at Bardstown.
There was a perpetual series of cavalry and
artillery skirmishes with the Confederates
after leaving Louisville, which kept Buelrs
army back and gave Bragg time TO withdraw
from Bardstown. Buell. reached that place
eight hours after his enemy had left it. Re-
ports reached Buell. from time to time indi-
eating the direction Bragg had taken. He
changed his line of march accordingly, now
here, now there, till at length it seemed clear
that Bragg was either at Perryvillc or Har-
rodsburg.
Oct Z, Buell. came within three miles Of
Perryville. There he found the Confederates
in force. Gilbert's corps was with tho Fed
eral commander at this time McCooks
corps was at this time on the Harrodsburg
road, and Crittendens corps was on the
Lebanon road.
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NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Athens, Mich, has an Indian baseball
team.
The cotton crop in the south is ''the
greatest ever seen."
Montana is moving for the preservation
of her forests.
The latest fad in Michigan is to wear a
small thermometer for breastpin.
A magazine is to be started that will
have contributions from ''society people
onlyl'
Florida claims to have extensive phos-
phate beds equaling, if not surprising,
those of South Carolina.
The great tower of Babel which is to
distinguish the French exhibition of 1889
is gradually rising.
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of poor parents. The
en- clopedias say
that in his early
youth he worked at
road making, which
statement is not as
clear as one could
wish, At any rate,
he was self educated
and studied law, and
never went to West
Point. He won a high
place as a criminal
lawyer at Louisville.
He took the Union
side In 1861, and
raised two regiments
in Kentucky, but was
nblina6 tn n1ra,-+ar
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pare to attack the Federal army in flank and
rear, while Kirby Smith should attack in
front
Polk decided not to obey the order, but to
follow his original instructions to slowly
retire to Bryantville Bragg then counter
manded the order to attack that he had given
to Smith
During the last of September and first days
of October, Braggs army had been success
fully and rapidly accommodating the spois of
war. Cattle, horses, swine and mules We're
seized without stint by Confederate detach-
ments in various parts of the interior At
Frankfort cloth factory was looted, and
100000 yards OF the famous Kentucky
butternut jeans were taken. In some in
stances Confederate scrip was offered in pay
ment for property seized.
Bragg had issued a proclamation to the
Kentuckidls on entering the interior or the
state. in which he had said he must have the
supplies of war wherewith to liberate them
from the northern invader. To the ladies he
said with poetic enthusiasm:
"Buckle on the armor of your kindred your
husbands, sons and brothers, and scoff with
shame him who would prove recreant to you,
his country and his God.n
The supplies of war; had been aocumu-
lating at Lexington. Bragg ordered suffi-
cient quantity sent to Polk at Bryantsville,
and Oct. z ordered Polk himself to march to
Perryyille, KY, with Cheatham's division.
He was further TO attack the Union army,
TouG IL, anu tnen JOIN NTDy onnth at FRANK
ford
Bishop Leonidas Polk, Of Louisiana, on the
outbreak Of the civil war, threw away his
priestly cassock and donned the Confederate
lighting gray. He had, however, been q
soldier before becoming bishop, having
been graduated at West Point III 1897. He
was born at Raleigh, N. G., in 1906. He was
one of the most able and jealous of the minor
Confederate generals. Wherever fighting
was, there Bishop Polk was He always de-
clared, however, that when the war was over
he would go back and be bishop again. A
British officer who knew him in the army
wrote of the Confederate soldier bishop: "He
is very rich, and, l am told, owns 7C0 ne
groes"
Gen. Polk commanded division at Shiloh
and corps at Chickamauga- His sense of
his own dignity and Importance sometimes
led him to disobey his superior officers as he
did Bragg in Kentucky. For such disobe-
dience at Chickamauga he was put under ar
rest, but was afterwards restored to COM
mand. He was with Johnston's army before
Atlanta, in June, 1864, where a cannon shot
from the Federal lines ended his career both
military and theological. Bishop Polk was a
man of imposing presence,
Oct. 8, 1862, Bragg's and Buell's armies
knocked heads together ut last and fought the
BATTLE OF PERRYViLlE.
This had been Buell's disposition of his
forces after he marched out of Louis
Il
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Shortly after he retreated from Corinth in
May, Gen. Beauregard, who was in poor
health gave up the command of the COnfed-
crate department Of the Mississippi. His au-
thority was turned over to Maj. Gen. Brax-
ton Bragg, who took command of the army
June 1G, 1862. It was tEcn at Tupelo, Miss
town on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, fifty
miles southwest of COrinth.
On taking command of the Confederate
force, Bragg AT once started it towards Chat
tanooga, Tenn Once there, lie had an ute
rior dream, which he thought might be real
lied. He would strike thence into Kentucky
strike boldly and quickly, His southern
army, powerful and enthusiastic, could
drive out all the Union troops that were then
in the state After that what? What but
the establishing Of a secessionist government
and the gaining OF Kentucky for the Confed-
eracy.
| Such was the dream of Maj. Gen. Braxton
Bragg, G.. S. A, III June, 1862.
Before the grand expedition started there
had been various Confederate incursions and
raids Knoxville and East Tennessee We're il
possession of the Confederates.
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made commander Of the army Of the Ohio He
was mustered out of the volunteer service in
1864, and resigned from the regular army In 1865.
He is now q resident in Louisville.
In August Gen. Buell. had been under the
impression that Bragg meant to move against
Nashville. The Federal commander had ac-
cordingly concentrated his main army at
Murfreesboro, Early in September he be-
came aware that Bragg's movements meant
the invasion of Kentucky and the north.
Thereupon, Sept. z, he set his army in mo-
ton for Louisville. 1t has been already
mentioned that this city was Bragg's object
i've point also. The second race between
Bragg and Buell. began therefore.
Maj. Gen. Bragg, Buell's opponent, vas West
North Carolinian, and was three years older than
Buell.. Like most prominent officers on both the
Union and Confederate sides Bragg had served
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had taken possession of Murfreesboro with
valuable stores, July Is, after a sharp fight.
On the approach of Nelson Forrest left the
town. Nelson pursued but could not over
take hing, not having cavalry. Forrest swep5
around Nashville like q tornado, and then
went to McMinnville, Tenn, whence he made
raids
Buell. lad been busy putting railroads in
order, the Nashville and Chattanooga and
tue Memphis and Charleston, whereby to
transport Lis troops. The latter part of July
the last of his army crossed the Tennessee
river and moved eastward. This was Gen.
Thomas division. 1t was on this march
that the lamented Col. Robt. l. McCook was
killed III northern Alabama He was i'll
and unarmed, travelling in an ambulance,
| when he was shot dead by guerrillas He is
buried at the beautiful Spring Grove ceme-
terry, Cincinnati.
Nelson was ordered to McMinnville, still
| after that industrious raider, Forrest Early
| in August, 1862, this was the disposition of
the Federal army: Nelson was at McMinn-
| vile, Tenn. Crittenden and McCook were at
| Battle Greek; Rousseau was on the Decatur
| and Columbia railroad, and Thomas was on
! the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad.
| They were thus scattered over a wide dis
| trict.
And at this time Bragg began
THE INVASION OF KENTUCKY.
Kirby Smith had been ordered into Ken
| tuc1y. He left Knoxville, passed rapidly
through gap in the Cumberland mountains
and sped northward. He issued proclama-
ton among the people as he went, telling
| them that every man who fired ON his troops
should be hanged.
| Kirby Smith was n FIOridian born in 1895 anG